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 the quicker I may allow myelf to be in relating them.

At length, thee firt Improvements enabled Man to improve at a greater Rate. Indutry grew perfect in Proportion as the Mind became more enlightened. Men, oon ceaing to fall aleep under the firt Tree, or take helter in the firt Cavern, light upon ome hard and harp kinds of Stone reembling Spades or Hatchets, and employed them to dig the Ground, cut down Trees, and with the Branches build Huts, which they afterwards bethought themelves of plaitering over with Clay or Dirt. This was the Epocha of a firt Revolution, which produced the Etablihment and Ditinction of Families, and which introduced a Species of Property, and along with it perhaps a thouand Quarrels and Battles. As the Stronget however were probably the firt to make themelves Cabins, which they